A few DH Vampire repaints (wip) [Archive]

HenryW

April 15th, 2010, 13:59

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/a.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/b.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/c.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/d.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/e.jpg

Ferry_vO

April 15th, 2010, 14:17

Great stuff, Henry!

:ernae:

CheckSix

April 15th, 2010, 15:42

Geez H! Beautiful paints! Now if there was ever a paint of a No.8 Sqn RAF, especially in Suez conflict colours.... :)

peter12213

April 15th, 2010, 15:43

GREAT NEWS, Been waiting for this, any chance of some more swiss and RAF ones, preferably camo?

noddy

April 16th, 2010, 01:17

Lovely work as usual Henry.

wiltzei

April 16th, 2010, 01:44

FAF had also a few of those.

http://www.kuvaboxi.fi/julkinen/27nbu+juhani-kuisma-ilmavoimien-kalustoa-60-luvulta-ja-vahan-vanhempaa.html?lang=en

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:Vampire.jpg

The text around the red triangle says "VAARA" and the text directly above the intake is "ÄLÄ ASTU".

knackfsx

April 16th, 2010, 02:15

nice work henry! thx

jankees

April 16th, 2010, 02:31

excellent job, but do I see mirrored textures on the swedish bird?

italflyer

April 16th, 2010, 03:24

Wonderful!:salute:

will there be a swiss one, pretty (veeeeeery pretty) please?? :redface:

RyDraiggoch

April 16th, 2010, 04:54

Gorgeous Henry

looking forward to trying them.

as I asked elsewhere - would you mind uploading the finished article to www.classicbritishfiles.com (http://www.classicbritishfiles.com)?

Cheers

Leif

HenryW

April 16th, 2010, 07:52

Thanks!

Checksix: No.8 Sqn RAF is in the work

Peter12213: See attched pictures, but a cammo version is unfortunately impossible as the top wing is mapped as one, wich is to say that the top (right) wing will be axactly as the left wing

wiltze: Finnish AF in the works

Jankees: Thanks! Didn't notice that :wavey: correction shall be made

Italflier: See attached pics

Leif: Sure, i'll upload at the pond :wiggle:

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/aa.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/bb.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/cc.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/dd.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/ee.jpg

kilo delta

April 16th, 2010, 08:06

Fantastic work,Henry!:ernae:

Any chance of painting this one? Very similar to the default texture...

http://www.hyperscale.com/images/cmr32reviewmd_1.jpg

robcarrich

April 16th, 2010, 08:16

Beautiful re-paints Henry,
She never looked so good!!

Rob

italflyer

April 16th, 2010, 09:02

Hy Henry!.....

I'm speechless! Looking at the pictures, I nearly hear the sound of this birds passing above my head when I was a kid! They made a very particular whistling noise. If I remember well, they flew these machines until the early seventies here in Sitzerland!

Simply great, thanks a lot!

:italy: :switzerland:

huub vink

April 16th, 2010, 12:13

Very nice Henry! Your bare metal always look great!

Cheers,
Huub

peter12213

April 16th, 2010, 12:19

Simply stunning Henry as always!:salute:

JensOle

April 16th, 2010, 13:18

Looking very good Henry! Love the SAAF and scandinavian paints. What about a green Norwegian FB.52 from 336 or 337 Sqn ?

shackleton_boy

April 16th, 2010, 22:37

love the SAAF repaints :jump:

atf300

April 17th, 2010, 04:01

could you do some rhodesian repaints ?

jeansy

April 17th, 2010, 04:18

bloody brilliant :salute:

CheckSix

April 17th, 2010, 08:03

Thank you H! Thank you very much indeed.

HenryW

April 17th, 2010, 16:03

Looking very good Henry! Love the SAAF and scandinavian paints. What about a green Norwegian FB.52 from 336 or 337 Sqn ?

I'm afraid this is not possible due to the mapping (see attached pics)

More repaints with improved netal textures:

RRAF

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/2-2.jpg

RNoAF

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/1-2.jpg

SAAF 1. Sq

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/3-2.jpg

RAF 8. sq

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/4-2.jpg

Another Swiss AF

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/5-1.jpg

And the problem:

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/nn.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/nn2.jpg

jeansy

April 17th, 2010, 16:30

H would you be kind enough to throw a kangaroo on a scheme please

Naki

April 17th, 2010, 17:10

..or a Kiwi? (although most of the time we had Vampires they had RAF roundels)

Tweek

April 17th, 2010, 18:04

The improved metal looks great.

peter12213

April 17th, 2010, 18:29

Henry they are spiffing old boy, cannot belive the quality, loving every pixel here!:salute:

jetstreamsky

April 17th, 2010, 18:37

It's a great metal texture, but I'm not sure it's really appropriate as the Vampires are more painted silver than natural metal. I'll be very happy to fly them either way though :salute:

peter12213

April 17th, 2010, 18:45

Bollocks mate, they look better painted than natural, that norge one is stunning! :salute:

CheckSix

April 18th, 2010, 01:16

They were painted Silver cos the Vamp were mostly made from wood minus the hot areas etc ... O.o

Tweek

April 18th, 2010, 03:46

They were painted Silver cos the Vamp were mostly made from wood minus the hot areas etc ... O.o

He makes a good point. Not sure which parts were made of wood myself (I'm guessing the wings), but it'd probably be better to make them look less metallic if you can find out which bits were wood and which metal.

kilo delta

April 18th, 2010, 04:08

He makes a good point. Not sure which parts were made of wood myself (I'm guessing the wings), but it'd probably be better to make them look less metallic if you can find out which bits were wood and which metal.

The booms and tail sections were metal and the rest wooden afaik.

Edit: Seems that the wings were metal too.....

" It was built in two halves and from the nose back to just aft of the cockpit (the point at which the engine was attached) was a composite of a layer of balsawood between two layers of moulded plywood. Although wooden construction on a jet fighter may have seemed archaic, especially when many piston engine fighters of the day were being made of metal, the end result was very strong and (more importantly) very lightweight. The mid mounted, cantilevered wing was of all metal construction built around a single spar and covered with a flush riveted Alclad (a heat-treated aluminium, copper, manganese, magnesium alloy) skin. The all-metal tail booms carried the twin vertical stabilisers and rudders and a single tailplane and elevator between them, mounted high enough to be clear of the jet exhaust"

http://www.nzwarbirds.org.nz/vampire1.html

HenryW

April 18th, 2010, 05:33

Very well, here is a comparision. What do you think? (There will be a RAAF and a RNZ AF too)

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/pa.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/pb.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/pc.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/pd.jpg

Tweek

April 18th, 2010, 06:07

You work wonders! :applause:

Naki

April 18th, 2010, 13:38

Very well, here is a comparision. What do you think? (There will be a RAAF and a RNZ AF too)

Awesome thanks....your paints look great

peter12213

April 19th, 2010, 05:34

Looking forward to these, any release date planned?

atf300

April 30th, 2010, 18:23

can you please release these already !!! :)

JensOle

April 30th, 2010, 23:48

Henry, let me know when you have got the files I have tried to send you.

regards
Jens-Ole

HenryW

May 2nd, 2010, 11:55

I've been strugling to make a high speed silver and think that the finnish AF ine is somewhat closer, but i don't really know.

Jens, ive sent you a mail

Here are some more trials, i'll upload them as soon as i've done some unimportant RW stuff :kilroy:

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/aa-1.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/bb-1.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/cc-1.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/dd-1.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/ee-1.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/ff.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/hh.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/ii.jpg

jetstreamsky

May 2nd, 2010, 12:21

Oh yes! Very nice

peter12213

May 2nd, 2010, 12:50

WOW WOW WOW, thats all really! :salute:

JoeW

May 2nd, 2010, 15:06

Henery ...... Guys .......
I posted a shot of one here in Lake Placid that is Jerry Creeds. I don't know if it's a knock-off like a fiberglass Cobra but the one here in Lake Placid does not have any panel lines.. she's like fiberglass. All one piece.

Mâra Trilokadev

May 2nd, 2010, 16:07

Drat drat drat! Another keyboard ruined by drooling!

Happy Flying,
MT

HenryW

May 7th, 2010, 08:27

Thanks!

Here some more prev's:

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/5b.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/6b.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/4b.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/3b.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/4a.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/2a.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/2b.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/1a.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/7b.jpg

peter12213

May 7th, 2010, 16:10

doublecool

May 7th, 2010, 16:54

Just BRILLIANT Work

and the shots :applause:

Thanks Henry :ernae:

RyDraiggoch

May 7th, 2010, 18:04

I just put this VC in the suprunov Vampire, I do find the FDe to be a little over powered on this model, anyone else agree, please post your mods if any have been made!

Henry your paints are wonderful!!

Speaks Volumes that you put a FREEWARE VC into a PAYWARE model Peter

And oh yes how many hours do you have in Vampires IRL?

I find it rather amusing that people here seem to be quite content to modify other people hours of work to suit their needs even when asked not.

peter12213

May 7th, 2010, 18:07

A fair amount mate, I'd say at least 300 hours flying in sims and 1000's of hours reading about it, trust me matey I know this jet like the back of my hand the first time I sat in one I was 3 and on my Dads lap! I used to go to Sunderland aircraft musuem when I was a kid every sunday week after week and sit in one, so much that when some yobs decided to set fire to part of the museum I got my photo taken in the local news paper with the owner wearing full flying kit lol, the title was "Peter takes control" so yes its fair to say I know the Vamp mate! Actually I'll be honest It was a Hawker Hunter my pic was taken in because the Vamp was quite old and didn't look that good, but I just went back after about 16 years to the museum saw Graeme the owner he reconised me after a bit banter and I got straight back in the cockpit lol, I'm going to post some shots soon, but i didn't have a camera with me when I went last week, I'll try and show the article too my Dad should still have it as well as many rare old birds!

T6flyer

May 9th, 2010, 12:28

I nearly had a ride in one once, but instead went for the JP instead, which I found rather boring, compared to the Piston Provost. As this model has been tested by past Vampire pilots, I truly believe that it is as close to the real thing as we can truly expect.

I look forward to the next creation to emerge from the same 'factory'!!

Best wishes,

Martin

Tweek

May 9th, 2010, 13:58

I find it rather amusing that people here seem to be quite content to modify other people hours of work to suit their needs even when asked not.

Well that attitude isn't going to get anybody anywhere. Frankly, if a developer said I couldn't modify their files for my own personal use, then I'd either ignore them or refuse to support them by not purchasing their addon. What I do in the privacy of my own home should be of no interest to any developer.

peter12213

May 10th, 2010, 00:28

Well that attitude isn't going to get anybody anywhere. Frankly, if a developer said I couldn't modify their files for my own personal use, then I'd either ignore them or refuse to support them by not purchasing their addon. What I do in the privacy of my own home should be of no interest to any developer.

Well said mate!

anatolpopov

May 11th, 2010, 04:27

Are these paints uploaded somewhere? Have I missed something?

peter12213

May 11th, 2010, 06:48

Are these paints uploaded somewhere? Have I missed something?

Not yet Antton still awaiting release!

Mâra Trilokadev

May 30th, 2010, 11:16

:bump:

Just hoping these are still planned for release...

Happy Flying,
MT

Mâra Trilokadev

September 9th, 2010, 09:43

:bump: sorry... couldn't resist...

Have these lovelies been released, I wonder? A sift through the library here, flightsim and avsim came up blank for me.

My compliments to the author - I'd love to have them in my virtual hangar.

Happy Flying,
MT

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/a.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/b.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/c.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/d.jpg

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/Wyrneh/Hunters/e.jpg

delta_lima

February 15th, 2011, 10:28

Henry - you're a master!

Just stumbled across this thread - I had no idea you had some Vampires cooking in the pot ... eagerly awaiting these. I know you're just coming out from underneath all the T-bird work, so I won't even bother asking when we might see them.

Whenever they're ready, the'll be magnificent. Nice to see operator paints from around the globe - nice breadth of coverage. I never knew the RCAF had that crazy yellow scheme! Nice to see the metal schemes - I'm in awe. It would be a delight if a Royal Navy scheme worked it's way into the set - but it looks already like a killer set of paints.

Many thanks!

ps - your AS Starfighter and Piglet Skyraider repaints get very regular use - they are 10/10!

HenryW

February 15th, 2011, 13:42

Thanks! I've almost forgot :sheep: I'll go trough the textures as i wasn't quite satisfied with the result when i finnish up the T-33 job.

Cheers

italflyer

February 15th, 2011, 21:51

Thanks a lot Henry, I'm really looking forward to them!:jump:

delta_lima

May 1st, 2011, 15:34

Hello Henry,

Just wondering if these will be released ... still looking forward to them if/when you can finish them.

Not wanting to rush - just curious of they're still en route at some point ...

many thanks,

dl

conork

May 2nd, 2011, 10:20

wow these paints look great !!! :) well done

any chance of an irish air corps repaint : http://www.irishairpics.com/photo/1035876/L/De-Havilland-DH-115-Vampire-T55/191/Irish-Air-Corps/?&sid=&sp

http://www.greenhobbymodel.com/IrishAirCorps_deHavilland_Vampires_1955.jpg

kilo delta

May 2nd, 2011, 10:22